date:Jul 18, 2014
rivals almost every month.
It plans more in 2014, adding more in terms of sales than the businesses it has bought so far this year.
In the first half of 2014, SGS's sales were up 5.3 percent at 2.8 billion Swiss francs, driven by its oil, gas and chemicals segment. But sales for the minerals unit slumped 6 percent as mining firms cut operating and capital expenditure.
The cyclical downturn in mining has also hit SGS's peers, such as Britain's Intertek and France's Bureau Veritas .
SGS has c